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The Rocket basketball teams finish out the last few games of the season against the Andale Indi-ans, McPherson Bull pups, Winfield Vikings, and the Buhler Crusaders.

The teams stayed home on February 4 against the Andale Indians. Starting the night off with a win was the girls’ varsity. During the first half the girls scored 27 points to the Indians 13 points. The girls continued scoring, adding another 19 points to the board. The final score was 46 to 26, Rocket win. The boys’ var-sity scored 16 points in the first half just falling short of Andale. During the second half the boys were able to add another 18 points to the board. The final score was 49 to 34, Andale, win.

“We are finishing strong. We are beating teams we should be and we are really coming together as a team,” said junior Kanya Simo-neao.

The teams had another home game on February 12 against McPherson Bull Pups. During the first half of the girls’ varsity game, they put up another 21 points. In the second half, the team only scored 20 points. The girls’ team lost with a final score of 41 to 48. The boys’ varsity scored

The Rockets hosted the Regional Wrestling tourna-ment this year. A total of 15 schools came on February 19 and 20. Rose Hill placed 12 at the tournament with a total score of 42.5. The tournament will help decide in which wrestlers would be going to state. A wrestler must place in the top four to be eligible to go to the state tournament. It will be held in Salina at the Bicentennial Center.

Sophomore Matt Atkin-son was the only wrestler who placed in the top four and will be the only wres-tler going to state. Another wrestler who was close in placing in the top for was Sophomore Chase Thrush. He only needed to win one

Sophomore Matt Atkinson gets his hand raised after defeating his opponent. After winning his match Atkinson placed third, and was eligible to go to State.

Basketball nears sub-state17 points in the first half. During the second half they added another 17 points. The final score was 70 to 34, McPherson, win.

The Rocket bus

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traveled the home of the Winfield Vikings on Feb-ruary 16. The girls added another win against the Vikings. During the first half of the girls’ game, they

put 24 points on the board. Then another 26 points in the second half. Thee final score was 50 to 38, Rocket win. The boys’ varsity scored 26 points in the first half. During the second half they scored another 28 points. The final score was 54 to 40, Rocket win.

“I think we have been doing good. We have really improved since the begin-ning of the season. We’re all kind of understanding what we need to do and how we need to work together get the games done. We are kind of like adapting to each other,” Simoneao.

The Rocket bus contin-ued to Buhler on February 19. The girls added another win for the season. During the first half the girls game scored 15 points falling short of the Indians by 4 points. During the second half of the girls game, they put another 29 points on the board. The final score was 44 to 27, Rocket win. The boys’ varsity put 20 points on the scoreboard. During the second half, the boys added another 26 points to the board. The final score was 72 to 46, Buhler, win.

more match but lost by decision.

One of the Rockets last duel was hosted on Febru-ary 11. The wrestling team went against Augusta and lost 57-18. Only four wres-tlers won against Augusta. Freshman Kyle Sackett, Grant Scheer, Junior

Braden Carney, and Thrush, all won their matches against Augusta. Carney pinned his opponent within three minutes and 24 sec-onds, Scheer had the fastest pin for Rose hill within 38 seconds, and Thrush won by decision with a score of 5-1.

Atkinson headed to state competitionAshlee LaschReporter Senior

Senior Brogan Collins looks for an open shot. The girls won the game against El Dorado with a final score of 42-43. Photo by Rainey Adler.

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The cheerleading squad attended Rally in the Valley at Valley Center High School on February 9. The squad received three superior scores along with one excellence score.

The ladies first started work-ing on the routine in December. During their practice times, they did different types of running. This included Indian runs and running for distance. Along with running, they also did other cardio-based activities to prepare them for the large amount running included in their routine.

Despite not being able to receive an overall score for their routine, they were awarded superior in jumps, motion, and cheer. In stunts, they received an excellence score, which is one step down from supe-rior.

After attending Rally in the Val-ley, their only official competition, the ladies preformed the routine one last time at the Rose Hill Re-gional Wrestling Tournament on February 19.

Junior Savanna Renollet who has been a part of the squad since her freshman year said, “After we preform, we all yell “Rockets,” and the feeling we get after we hit ev-erything and smiling at each other is amazing.”

Renollet hopes that next year more people try out, allowing the squad to expand after this year’s worry of not having enough people.

Cross-dressing in the spring play will showcase seniors Logan Kressly and Kole Wright’s abil-ity to act, dress, talk, and walk like women. The play is called “Some Like it Hot” and will be showing on March 25 and 26. For both of those nights the play will start at 7 o’clock.

In the production Senior Kendra

Baldridge, Kressly and Wright have the lead roles. Baldridge plays the role of Sugar Kowalczyk, a ukulele player and singer. Kressly is pre-forming the role of Joe/Josephine who is a male (cross-dressing) jazz saxophone player. Wright portrays the role of Jerry/Daphne, a male (cross-dressing) jazz double-bass player.

The other roles are seniors Christian Polk as Spats, Connor Penka as Bellhop, and Cale Mc-Neil as Mozarella/1st Henchman/Paradise, juniors Tiger Pollock as

Mulligan/Bienstock, Josh Farrar as Osgood/Charlie and Kelby Dinkel as Funeral director/2nd Hench-man, sophomores Riley Isbel as Captain/Poliakoff/Bonaparte/An-nouncer/Operator and sophomore Cav Newman as waiter/ mechanic/Newsboy/Junior/Official.

The all girls band is lead by Sweet Sue who is played by senior Clau-dia Sprague. The rest of the band is made up of junior Kennedi Sills as Nellie, Sophomore Cede Garcia as Delores, and seniors Rachel An-derson as Mary Lou and Keegan

Sweeney as the Secretary.Kressly said, “We have a lot of

new people in it but I have faith that they will come through and be fantastic. I think the script is very funny and I have faith that the director will get us to our highest potential.”

The play opens on the city of Chicago at the end of winter in February of 1929. Joe and Jerry are accidental witnesses to the Saint Valentines Day Massacre.

Lauren DiazReporter Junior

Cross-dressing in the spring play

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Cheer receives excellence ribbon

Brandy VaughnSports EditorJunior

The season for winter guard started at the beginning of second semester. Team mem-bers first tried out the previous school year for both marching and winter season of guard. But,

members who participate in the marching season do not have to perform in the winter sea-son. Melissa Baum coaches the team for both the fall and winter season.

On Saturday, February 20 the team performed for the first time this season at Chalenger Goddard Middle School. There

are 11 girls and one boy on this year’s winter guard team and their perfor-mance featured the song Nothing Ever Hurt Like You and one solo by the team’s captain, senior Delaney Lockard.

“Personally I think I really im-proved over the years and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for me,” said Lockard. She has been in color guard for the entirety of her high school career. “I feel like the team will be a lot better next year, because there were so many underclassman so

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[next year] there will be lots up upperclassmen with lots of expe-rience,” said Lockard.

Two of the team’s sophomore, Skyla Thomas and Ashlee Hen-wood, also had a duet during the performance, “Skyla and I’s duet went really well, the highlight of it was probably our transi-tion toss that we did it was a really cool toss… It took a lot of practice and that was probably my favorite part,” said Hen-wood. ““I think it went really well, because we worked really hard every Wednesday morn-ing… We started working on it back in December and I really enjoyed it and I thought it was a great experience for me… It brought guard closer together and it gives us an outlook on next year too.”

This year’s show featured a switch of flags during the per-formance. “Highlight of the per-formance was our guard feature when we switched flags… It was dark and then we brought in these pink beautiful, bright silks and it was a cool affect,” said Henwood.

The team also performed dur-ing halftime of the girls’ basket-ball game on Tuesday, February 24. As well as the guard, the drumline played for the crowd at the beginning of halftime.

The winter guard team members senior Delaney Lockard (back) and junior Lizzie Lazar (front) are performing for the halftime show during the girls’ game against El Dorado. Photo by senior Gabby Far-ris.

ROCKET OPINION February 26, 2016Page 2

As the next Presidential elec-tion nears, there is a wide variety of potential candidates. High school seniors have the chance to participate in their very first vote. First steps earning your ‘I voted’ sticker is registering to vote and staying updated through out the campaigns.

To vote there are only three easy qualifications. One, you must be a resident of Kansas, next you must be a citizen of the U.S., and finally you must be 18 years or older. If you are not eighteen as of now, but will be before the election begins you

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Cartoon by junior Sammi Waddell.

can still register. You must be registered in order to vote. You cannot simply show up at the voter’s poll and vote even though you posses all three of the qualifi-cations.

Registering to vote is not something to procrastinate. You must register 21 days prior to the election. Check the mail frequently for a verification letter after you have registered. Even after you register, make sure you carry your ID with you when you go to the polls.

These first few steps are the easy part of voting. Staying in-formed in today’s constant bustle of technology is harder than one would think. One advantage is all the different ways you can stay

involved through the Internet. No longer must you sit and read through endless online articles just to understand what politi-cian is in your favor.

Some options to staying informed include the television, radio, or Internet. Turning on the big news while you get ready before school or while you eat breakfast is an easy way to listen in on the activities of the current politicians. If you roll out of bed and head to school, then online websites like theskimm.com relay information in a compact form. Reading the entire article for a specific day takes less than five minutes.

Radio stations like NPR have pieces that discuss the current

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Becoming the informed voterpolitics. Listen to this station on your way to school or on your way home for a quick update.

Listening to the radio, watch-ing television, and surfing the Internet are all great ways to find out information. But, make sure the information you are hearing is correct and up to date. Do not let yourself become part of the herd of sheep that follow their friends’/parents’ views. If you retweet photos about ‘feeling the Bern’ because it sounds cool, it might not be a basis for your rea-soning behind voting for Bernie Sanders.

Understanding the potential presidential candidate’s views are a big part in your vote. As a high school student, research-

ing candidates who interest you could widen your view on what policies they claim. Such policies could include benefits for you in college or your future career. They could possibly affect your family’s life and your community.

Lastly, do not hesitate to take the initiative to vote. For current 18/17 year olds, you will be the youngest voters in the upcoming election. Getting excited about your chance to exercise your constitutional right to vote is not something to take lightly.

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Do you have a bedside lamp that could use a little pizzazz? Have you constantly overlooked your lampshade because nothing interesting is happening? This do-it-yourself will show you how to amp up your room décor and create a stylish lampshade that will leave you and your guests amazed.

Some of the materials you will need are a lampshade, black spray paint, and a thumbtack or ice pick. You can use any color of spray paint, though it is strongly recommended to use black as this makes the “stars” shine more brightly, because it will have exceptional contrast with the lampshade.

First off, choose your design. Try as many patterns until your heart is content. The examples that will be shown are the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, London Bridge, and other man-made marvels. Once you have deter-mined what design you want, either print the silhouette out or draw it out on a piece of paper.

Choose the lampshade that you think would compliment your design the most. In the illustration, a cream colored and oval craft lampshade purchased from Hobby Lobby is being used, but it will be spray painted black at the end of the project.

Next, position the design over the lampshade and either secure it with tape or have a friend hold it in place for you. Take special care to straighten the paper before fastening it down com-pletely.

Using thumbtacks, an ice pick,

1) Materials needed include the lampshade, design, spray paint, and an ice pick/thumbtack. 2) Place the design on top of the lampshade and secure it with tape or have someone hold it down for you. Find the finishing steps in the story. Photo by junior Sammi Waddell.

or a safety pin, poke holes in the lampshade, tracing the lines of the silhouette. Use smaller sized holes when outlining straight lines, as placing them too close together will result in a tear in the material.

After tracing your design, remove the paper and double-check for anything you may have missed. Once you are confident that you have gotten everything, feel free to create several differ-ent sized holes to produce a star shine effect above the silhouette of the buildings.

After you have completed fashioning your starry master-piece, put the lampshade on the lamp and turn it on. If you are satisfied with how it looks, you can move on to the next step and paint the lampshade. If not, tamper with the stars until you are content.

Do not paint the lampshade in the house! Not only is the smell absolutely horrendous, but also it is very bad for your lungs to breathe in. Since the weather is becoming nicer, go outside to paint the lampshade. Read the directions on the spray paint can, as drying times vary from brand to brand. Apply several coats, spraying each layer evenly.

Congratulations! You have completed your city lights lamp-shade. Put the lamp back in your room and let the light shine.

Sammi WaddellReporterJunior

DIY: City lights lampshade

ROCKET FEATURESFebruary 26, 2016 Page 3

Students have begun competing in one of the high schools newest clubs; chess club. Which is outside of the constant participation in football, basketball, soccer, and other sporting events.

Three years ago, freshman and sophomore English teacher Natalie Page was approached with the idea of sponsoring a club. At the time, senior AJ Hanks had been looking for a spon-sor for the club for his first three years in high school.

Five members of the newspaper staff attended the 2016 Kansas Scholastic Press Association Regionals on Thursday, February 25 for their second competi-tion of the year.

Regionals are divided into carry-ins (digital submis-sions) and on-site contests. All digital submissions were due a week prior to the on-site contests, on Thursday February 18, providing staff members ample time to

StuCo Executive Secre-tary Sophomore Lauren Jackson said, “ OCC is not rigged at all. With all the points that [StuCo] have I myself make sure that it is not rigged. There is absolutely no way that it is rigged.”

OCC stands for Out-standing Class Competi-tion in which certain school and club sponsored events are worth points. These points are gained by each class having the members of their class participates all of the events over the school year.

The winner of the com-petition gets an award at the end of the year. The award is typically a trip and

Getting to know more about chess “OCC is not rigged”

Newspaper Regionals to be held at Emporia State University

Hanks then went out and bought all the supplies needed to start the club. These items include tim-ers, a chess table, and chess pieces. The items added up to be almost $300 of his own money.

Since then, the club has been welcoming members year-round. The club meets Wednesdays and Thurs-days after school from 3:05 to around 4:30 in Page’s classroom.

For the first two years of the club, members stayed after school and played chess for fun. This year is the first year members have actually competed in tour-naments. So far this year,

for the past couple of years the trip has been taken to Worlds of Fun.

The points as of right now stand with the senior class in first place, followed by the sophomores, the juniors and the freshman in last place. The senior class has a total of 70 points just over twenty points above the sophomores at 49 points. The juniors are only a mere 12 points above the freshman at 35 to 23 points.

The biggest OCC events are both of the homecom-ings. With both of them over by now there are not very many “There’s little stuff here and there. For ex-ample before homecoming the National Honors Soci-ety coat drive was OCC but really homecoming is the biggest”, said Jackson.

complete them. During the on-site con-

tests, students are given a 90-minute time period to complete their registered contest.

“Even though our staff is low in numbers, we are still working well together to finish strong at regionals,” said senior and editor-in-chief Gabby Farris, who has attended KSPA Regionals for two and a half years.

Farris will be competing in Copyediting and Edito-rial Writing, and entered a digital submission competi-tion in Headline Writing

and Design, Newspaper Page Design, and Student Life Photography. In past years, Farris has received an honorable mention and first place in Newspaper Page Design.

Juniors Lauren Diaz, veteran Brandy Vaughn, and Samantha Waddell and sophomore Katelyn Koch are accompanying Farris to regionals.

Diaz will be participat-ing in Copy Editing, News Writing, and Advertising for her first year at region-als. Vaughn will be par-taking in Sports Writing,

Editorial Writing, Headline Writing and Design, News-paper Page Design, and Sports Photography for her second year. Waddell will be competing in Editorial Cartoon, Cutline Writing, and Infographics, for her second year at regionals. Koch will be doing Sports Writing, News Writing, Academics Photography, Sports Photography, and Student Life Photography for her one and one half years in the class.

In past years, Vaughn has received an honorable men-tion in Sports Writing and

third place in Newspaper Page Design. Waddell has received honorable men-tions in Editorial Cartoon and Infographics.

“I look forward to region-als and state every year,” said newspaper sponsor Butch Gilbert. “These con-tests are a good way to see how we compare with other schools our size.”

The results are to be announced and will be uploaded to the Kansas Scholastic Press Associa-tion’s webpage in March prior to spring break.

the club has attended three tournaments around the Wichita area. Before the season ends on February 27, the club will participate in two more tournaments.

Members go to the tournaments all on their own due to chess club not being sanctioned through the high school yet. Any-body is welcome to attend the tournaments including spectators.

“All levels are welcome. In fact if you don’t know how to play the other kids will teach you,” said Page. In addition to this, there are several documents in Page’s drop box that give instruc-tions on how to play.

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When “Spats” Colombo’s gang spots them the two run for their lives. Joe and Jerry are in a rush to get out of town and away from the gang so they join a band traveling to Florida.

The band just so happens

to be an all lady’s band, Sweet Sue and her Society Synco-pates. The men dress up as women because they are broke and will do anything to get out of town. Joe then becomes Josephine and Jerry becomes Daphne.

In the band they meet Sugar Kowalczyk, an incred-ibly stunning women, whom

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they both fall in lust after. They must continuously re-mind themselves that they are pretending to be women so neither can take a pass at her.

To find out what shenani-gans the two men continue once in Florida go to one of the two shows on March 25 and 26 at 7 pm. “I am hop-ing that once people, with a nice publicity run, hear about people running around in dresses and guys pretending to be women. Hopefully that will spark some interest in getting people out too see it,” said English teacher and Director Mark Blauser.